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That visit went remarkably smoothly. Trump's visit to Jerusalem has been laden with religious symbolism. 'Making peace.will not be easy - we all know that, ' Trump stated. "Never mentioned the word Israel". The visit raised questions about whether the USA would indicate the site is Israeli territory. The White House said that the use of the phrase "evil losers" in reference to the perpetrators of the attack (ISIS has taken credit) was Trump's own personal flourish. (more...)

US President Donald Trump delivers a speech upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2017 , as part of his first trip overseas. Donald Trump is set to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem on Tuesday to discuss the resumption of peace talks with Israel. "It makes us very happy to know that Israel's most important ally recognizes the significance of Jerusalem to the Jewish people all around the world", Rivlin said. (more...)

Palestinian prisoner solidarity network Samidoun also reported that similar one-day hunger strikes were carried out in the United States and Ireland on Tuesday and Wednesday. The protesters addressed a message to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, calling him to urgently intervene and provide protection for Palestinian prisoners, pressure Israel to commit to worldwide laws regulating the treatment of prisoners. (more...)

The Washington Post reported last week that a senior White House official close to the president was a significant focus of the high-stakes investigation, though it did not name Kushner. Kushner's attorney said her client is willing to talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation if asked. Trump , who is technically covered by Kushner's disclosures as his wife, also frequently posts photos of her pricey pieces on Instagram , where they help cultivate her carefully curated image of ... (more...)

In those states, CBO and JCT expect that, overall, average premiums in the nongroup market would be roughly 20 percent lower in 2026 than under current law, primarily because, on average, insurance policies would provide fewer benefits. An avalanche of congressional Democrats seized upon the CBO scoring to scorch GOP efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act . He said one idea involved charging insurers $1.50 per policy sold and diverting that money into such funds. (more...)

The American Academy of Pediatrics's statement of condolence in response to the attacks in Manchester said no child deserves to have her life cut short and no parent deserves to endure the ear and sorrow of losing a child too soon. "One of the things that can be useful to talk about is that people do bad things as opposed to there being bad people ". She wrote: "We have got about 50 kids with us waiting to be picked up, they are safe we will look after them". (more...)

The Tennessee Republican says he recently reviewed top-secret intelligence that detailed Iran's support for terrorism and other destabilizing actions. Corker said he would be willing to consider a sanctions bill soon after that if, as he expected, Tillerson does not demonstrate to the panel that there has been significant change by Russian Federation in Syria, where Moscow has been supporting President Bashar al-Assad in that country's six-year-old civil war. (more...)

In the latest example of President Donald Trump's cabinet being glaringly unprepared, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin just course-corrected his position on automation and its looming impact on the American economy, both in terms of manufacturing and artificial intelligence. (more...)

Zuckerberg returned to Harvard on Thursday to receive an honorary degree 13 years after he famously dropped out of the Ivy League school to focus on Facebook. "We're all better for it", he said. Numerous fake stories were quickly taken down. Mark cracked a bunch of jokes about the irony of going from Harvard dropout to graduation speaker. (more...)

The Iraqis did request an airstrike, and the US -led coalition responded by dropping a single GBU-38 munition, which carries about 200 pounds of explosives, around 8:30 a.m. "However, there were multiple opportunities" to do so relatively undetected, Isler explained. ISIS fighters purposely baited coalition forces into striking the building while using the building as a sniper position to fire at Iraqi CTS forces, he argued. (more...)

Twenty-two people were killed and more than 100 others injured as a result of a suicide bomber attack following a concert by American pop star Ariana Grande. Herrera's compatriot Mata said Monday's shocking events in Manchester gave the win in Stockholm extra significance. "We have a lot of players playing exceptionally well in the area of the pitch that Wayne plays", Southgate told thefa.com. (more...)

The Iranian spokesmen urged the U.S. officials to stop, what he called, "rising tensions, intervention, Iranophobia, and selling weapons to the supporters of terrorism". Rouhani, who contested the presidential post for a second term, won a landslide victory in the Friday polls, garnering 23,549,616 votes out of a total of 41,22,131. (more...)

White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney told lawmakers on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's plans to slash social programs are created to increase economic growth to 3 percent and put "taxpayers first". It then proposes $ 610 billion in additional Medicaid cuts. Georgia Rep. Sanford Bishop said the cuts "fail the test of basic human decency". Mulvaney also took issue with the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's scoring of House Republicans' bill to repeal and replace ... (more...)

Meanwhile Twitter users were quick to declare Macron , who at 39 is France's youngest leader, the victor. At their first meeting, ahead of a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit in Brussels on Thursday (Friday NZ Time), the two men locked hands for so long that knuckles started turning white. (more...)

Casiño cited the country's past experience under the martial law regime of President Ferdinand Maqrcos, where many were killed, disappeared, tortured and incarcerated. The troops also secured 42 teachers who had taken refuge and got trapped at Dansalan College after the city was engulfed in violence. "The voice of reason and respect for the dignity of every human being as a shared value of the great religions of the world must prevail over few loud voices who threaten to destroy humanity and ... (more...)

Government officials maintain that the government remains in control of the situation in Marawi city . The army managed to kill at least 13 gunmen of the IS-affiliated (Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL) Maute group who had overrun the local clinic, taking hostages, and occupying Marawi's City Hall. (more...)

In Brussels for a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit on Thursday, Prime Minister Theresa May confronted Trump over the issue. Asked if the leaks from U.S. He is now a manager of the Central Security force in Tripoli. "If that is something we did, I think that's a real problem", he said. "He saw the explosives America drops on children in Syria, and he wanted revenge ", she said. (more...)

If at least five justices vote to let the travel ban take effect, there's a good chance they also would uphold the policy later on. Gregory quoted statements by Trump during his campaign calling for a " Muslim ban", and wrote that a reasonable observer would likely conclude the order's "primary goal is to exclude persons from the United States on the basis of their religious beliefs". (more...)

Trump's caution showed. He did not weigh in on Israeli settlements, the status of Jerusalem or even whether the USA would continue to insist on a two-state solution giving the Palestinians sovereign territory. Trump arrived in Bethlehem by motorcade, crossing a checkpoint at Israel's controversial separation wall, and was greeted by Abbas and other dignitaries outside the city's presidential palace. (more...)

Meanwhile, it was reported that the bomber's younger brother, Hashem Abedi , had also been detained in Tripoli on suspicion of links with Islamic State . Greater Manchester Police are treating the explosion as a terrorist attack and have confirmed 22 fatalities and 59 injured. Britain's terror threat assessment has been hiked to "critical", the highest level, meaning an attack is considered imminent. (more...)